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The Annapolis Subscription Plate won by George Hume Steuart's Dungannon. George H. Steuart (1700–1785), founder of the Steuart family in Maryland, was an enthusiastic horse breeder, and he instigated the Annapolis Subscription Plate, the name given both to the first recorded formal horse race in colonial Maryland and to the silver trophy ...
Maryland Square, later known as Steuart Hall, c1868. George Hume Steuart was born on August 24, 1828, into a family of Scottish ancestry in Baltimore.The eldest of nine children, [1] he was raised at his family's estate in West Baltimore, known as Maryland Square, located near the present-day intersection of Baltimore and Monroe Streets.
Hume was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1747, the eldest son of planter and physician George Hume Steuart (1700–1784), and Anne Digges. [1] As the eldest son he stood to inherit the family plantation of Dodon in Maryland, but the coming of the Revolutionary War forced his father to divided his property between his sons. [3]
George Hume Steuart, (1700–1784) was a Scottish physician, tobacco planter, and Loyalist politician in colonial Maryland.Born in Perthshire, Steuart emigrated to Maryland in around 1721, where he benefited from proprietarial patronage and was appointed to a number of colonial offices, eventually becoming a wealthy landowner with estates in both Maryland and Scotland, and serving two terms as ...
George Hume Steuart (1790–1867) was a United States general who fought during the War of 1812, and later joined the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.His military career began in 1814 when, as a captain, he raised a company of Maryland volunteers, leading them at both the Battle of Bladensberg and the Battle of North Point, where he was wounded.
The Steuart family were a prominent family in Maryland during the colonial era and during the American Civil War. Pages in category "Steuart family" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
"Maryland Square" was the Baltimore residence of the Steuart family from around 1795, when purchased by physician James Steuart of Annapolis, son of the politician and planter George H. Steuart. [3] The Steuart family moved to Baltimore from Annapolis in 1795, as Baltimore began to eclipse Annapolis in size and importance. [3]
George H. Steuart (politician) (1700–1784) physician, tobacco planter, and Loyalist politician George Steuart Hume: George H. Steuart (Major General) Richard Sprigg Steuart (1797–1876) physician and pioneer of the treatment of mental illness George H. Steuart (Brigadier General) (1828 – 1903) planter and Confederate military officer ...